
Job requirements
Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Minimum 2 years experience as working as a band 6
- Experience
Able to demonstrate having worked with heart failure patients
- Experience
Able to demonstrate previous involvement in teaching and presentations
- Skills/experience
Excellent written communication
- Skills/experience
Demonstration of management and organisational skills
- Skills/experience
Able to recognise own limitations and areas of profession development required
- Education/qualifications
Qualified nurse with NMC registration
- Education/qualifications
Heart failure or cardiac CPD qualification at level 6
- Education/qualifications
Teaching/mentorship qualification
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of working as a band 7 in cardiology/heart failure
- Experience
Community experience and/or previous nurse-led clinic experience
- Experience
Involvement in clinical audit or research
- Education/qualifications
NMP or willingness to undertake prescribing course
- Education/qualifications
Physical assessment course or willingness to undertake in the near future
Job overview
Our friendly and well established heart failure service in Croydon is looking for a highly motivated nurse to join our team in this large and diverse London borough.
We are a pro-active and innovative multidisciplinary team, working across community sites and within Croydon University Hospital. We are currently running some exciting service development projects and strive to deliver high quality care to all our heart failure patients.
If you have heart failure experience with excellent organisational and communication skills and would like to join our team, we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate would be an experienced heart failure nurse, qualified in physical examination and non- medical prescribing, however professional development will be supported.
The successful candidate must be committed to working with heart failure patients, providing excellent standards of care and being an integral member of the multidisciplinary team.
Interviews: 8th December 2026
Main duties of the job
The Heart failure service at Croydon is an integrated service . You will be required to work in both the inpatient setting and the community, optimising the management and delivery of heart failure care to adults with Heart Failure. You will be required to use advanced specialist skills and knowledge to undertake full assessments of patients with Heart Failure, leading to safe decision making and implementation of management plans. Providing effective, evidenced based treatment, improving patients’ quality of life through delivering high-standard and holistic care. You will be required to independently manage a community caseload.
Excellent communication skills are required and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team is essential, liaising with all health professionals treating heart failure patients in primary, secondary care and tertiary centres to ensure seamless care.
To actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings
To take part in developing heart failure services and clinical practice through involvement in management, teaching, education, research and audit activity.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document (Job Description) which contains more information about the role.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Heart Failure Nurse Specialist with Croydon Health Services NHS Trust in Croydon, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Clinical nurse specialist role. The advertised salary is £55,524 - £62,652 pa inc HCAS (pro rata). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 25 Nov 2026.
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